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Re: [rfc] Retrieve libraries from remote target
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 23:48:52 +0300
- Subject: Re: [rfc] Retrieve libraries from remote target
- References: <200805091928.m49JSl0X018948@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 21:28:46 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> > > The user interface is simple: if the path specified as "sysroot" starts
> > > with the string "remote:", the sysroot location is assumed to be on the
> > > remote target.
> >
> > What if my _local_ "sysroot" happens to begin with the literal string
> > "remote:"? How can I tell GDB this is not a remote location?
>
> You cannot. Is this limitation a real problem?
If it can happen in real usage, then I think it's a real problem.